Bensenville, IL: Mimeo Press, 1965. First Edition. First Printing, limited to no more than 500 copies. Slim octavo (21.5cm); variously-colored mimeographed sheets, stapled into pink and black pictorial card wrappers; [52]pp. Some trivial dusty spots to wrappers, else a bright, Fine copy. This "long short story" marks an important debut..... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1977. First Edition. The smallest available limitation of this substantial collection of the Bukowski's poetry from the mid-1970's, basis for Dominique Deruddere's 1987 film Crazy Love. Krumhansl 60d; Morrow & Cooney 312e. Deluxe Issue, one of five specially designated copies set aside for the author..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1972. First Edition. Bukowski's first novel, an autobiographical work based on his years spent as a postal clerk and mail carrier in Los Angeles. He left his job there when publisher John Martin offered him $100 a week for life if he wrote for his..... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. First Edition. Sharp copy of Bukowski's first novel, an autobiographical work based on his years spent as a postal clerk and mail carrier in Los Angeles. He left his job there when publisher John Martin offered him $100 a week for life if he..... More